Mechanical toy



UNITED I STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN L. GIVEN, OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

MECHANICAL TOY.

SPECIFTCATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 258,743, dated May 30, 1882,

Application filed April 28, 1882.

act description.

This invention consists, in substance, in the combination, with a doll or other image in the representation of aliving being, of mechanism as follows, to wit: a series of musical reeds arranged in separate and parallel reed-chainbers of a common reed-board, a bellows for fore ing air through said reed, a hollow cylindrical drum provided with parallel peripheral rows of perforations through its shell in accordance with the notes of a musical tune or air, a ratchet-wheel attached to said drum, and an operating ratchet-pawl therefore connected to the bellows aforesaid, all placed within a chamber of the body or other convenientpart of the image, and constructed and arranged as to its several parts to be operated from the outside of the image by simply pressing upon and releasing said bellows, and in a manner to secure the sounding of the reeds in accordance with the rows of perforations of said drum, and thus the playing of the tune which they represent. Thereareotherfeaturesofimprovement which will hereinafter appear.

In the accompanying plate of drawings the present invention is illustrated in connection with a doll, and Figure l is a side view of a doll above the hips, and showing the body as in vertical section at that portion which makes the casing for the music-producing mechanism of a doll, which is shown in elevation at one side of the doll. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the music-producing mechanism detached Fig. 3, a horizontal section thereof on line 3 3, Fig. 1; and Fig. 4, a longitudinal section on line 4 4, Fig. 1.

In the drawings, A represents the body portion above the hips, B the head, and O the neck, of a doll, all as to such features as dolls are usually made. The bodyA has a chamber, E, of suitable form and size to receive the mechanism and allow the sameto operate and to be operated as hereinafter described. This chamber E is closed on all sides by cloth I) or other suitable material, and on the front of the (No model.)

body preferably by material such as cloth,which is flexible. The back of the chamber E in the body portion is made rigid, and for such purpose a plate, a, of tin or other suitable material, may be used.

F is a force-bellows, constructed and arranged for its parts to be pressed together a gainsta spring, 0, and to open from each other because of the reaction of such spring, and for air to be received within it and to be forced out of it through air-passages din one,f, of its side boards, fg, and otherwise as force-bellows are usually constructed and arranged.

it is a board attached at one edge to the bellows-board and provided with a series of parallel reed-chambers, 6, each containing a reed, m. Each reed is in communication with an air-passage, (Z, of the bellows, and each has a separate ainpassage, a, leading from it to the concave leather-covered surface 0 of the reedboard.

G is a cylindrical drum, closed at each end, and between its two ends provided with parallel rows 1) of perforations, runningaround the drum and opening into the inside chambers, q, thereof. These rows of perforations correspond in location to the reed-chambers l, and the several perforations are arranged in accordance with the notes of a musical tune, and there is a row of perforations for each reedchamber and its reed, and the drum is arranged by its journals 1' at each end to rotate in standards H, so that it will run in contact with the concave cushioned surface, which has the passages opening to the reeds, as above described.

8 are springs made of india-rnbber or other suitable material, and confined and arranged to press upon thejournals 7" of the perforated drum Gr in a direction to hold such drum with a yielding pressure in contact with the enshioned surface 0 of the reed-board h.

J is a ratchet-wheel of perforated drum G, and t is a ratchet-pawl attached to moving part 9 of bellows, and arranged to engage with the ratchet-wheel J, and turn it when the moving part of the bellows moves in adireetion to open from its stationary part and to pass freely over the ratchet-wheel without effect thereon when the moving part of the bellows moves in a direction to close against its stationary part.

The mechanism above described is placed within the chamber E of the doll A with the moving part 9 of the bellows-board at the front of the doll, and therein all secured in any suitable manner to operate freely and without restraint when the part of the doll is closed with the cloth I), and thereby to secure, by simply pressing upon and against the front of the doll, an operation of the bellows F and a rotation of the perforated drum G, and as a consequence the sounding of the reeds in accordance with the perforations of said drum, and thus the playing of a musical tune or air, if such perforations be suitably arranged therefore.

The making of the back a of the doll rigid,

as described, obviates all danger of injury to the musical mechanism of the doll when the bellows are operated by pressing upon them, and the tin plate may be attached to the stationary bellows-board for to the doll itself, as may be thought desirable.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. A mechanical toy made in imitation of a living being and having placed within it bellows F, reeds m, and reed-chambers l in a board, It, and in communication with said bellows, and the face 0 of the board h, and aperforated musical drum G, adapted to be driven by the movement of the bellows, and all combined and arranged together to be operated from the outside of the doll, substantially as described, and for the purpose specified.

2. The music perforated drum G, rotating in standards H, concave seat 0 for said drum, having air-passages a, leading to reed-chambers l of a reed-board, h, in combination with springs 8, arranged to press upon said drum with an elastic yielding pressure, substantially as described.

In testimony whereofl have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN L. GlVEN.

Witnesses:

EDWIN W. BROWN, WM. S. BnLLows. 

